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October 2015

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Anwar, S. & Loughran, T.A. (2011). Testing a Bayesian Learning Theory of Deterrence Among Serious Juvenile Offenders. Criminology, 49(3), 667-698.

Bechtold, J., Cavanagh,C., Shulman, E.P., & Cauffman, E. (2013). Does Mother Know Best? Adolescent and Mother Reports of Impulsivity and subsequent delinquency. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43(11), 1903-1913.

Bersani, B., Lougran, T., & Piquero, A. (2013). Comparing Patterns and Predictors of Immigrant Offending Among a Sample of Adjudicated Youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43, 1914-1933.

Brame, R., Fagan, J., Piquero, A. R., Schubert, C. A., & Steinberg, L. (2004). Criminal Careers of Serious Delinquents in Two Cities. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2 (3), 256-272.

Brame, R, Mulvey, E, Piquero, A, Schubert, C.A. (2014). Assessing the Nature and Mix of Offenses Among Serious Adolescent Offenders. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 24, 254–264.

Cauffman, E. (2008). Bad Boys or Poor Parents: Relations to Female Juvenile Delinquents, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18 (4), 699-712.

Cauffman, E., Piquero, A. R., Kimonis, E., Steinberg, L., Chassin, L., & Fagan, J. (2007). Legal, Individual, and Environmental Predictors of Court Disposition in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders. Law & Human Behavior, 31, 519-535.

Cauffman, E., Kimonis, E., Dmitrieva, J., & Monahan, K.C. (2009) A Multi-Method Assessment of Juvenile Psychopathy: Comparing the Predictive Utility of the PCL/YV, YPI, and Neo-PRI. Psychological Assessment, 21(4) 528-542.

Chassin, L., Dmitrieva, J., Modecki, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A. R., Knight, G. P., & Losoya, S. H. (2010). Does Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Suppressed Growth in Psychosocial Maturity Among Male Juvenile Offenders? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24(1), 48-60.

Chassin, L., Knight, G., Vargas-Chanes, D., Losoya, S., & Naranjo, D. (2009). Substance Use Treatment Outcomes in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 36(2), 183-194

Chassin, L., Piquero, A.R., Losoya, S., Mansion, A., & Schubert, C.A., (2013). Joint Consideration of Distal & Proximal Predictors of Premature Mortality Among Serious Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52(6), 689-696. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.11.018

Chung, H., Mulvey, E., & Steinberg, L. (2011). Understanding the School Outcomes of Juvenile Offenders: An Exploration of Neighborhood Influences and Motivational Resources. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 40, 1025-1038.

Chung, H. L., & Steinberg, L. (2006). Relations Between Neighborhood Factors, Parenting Behaviors, Peer Deviance, and Delinquency Among Serious Juvenile Offenders. Developmental Psychology, 42 (2), 319-331.

Chung, H. L., Schubert, C. A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2007). An Empirical Portrait of Community Reentry Among Serious Juvenile Offenders in Two Metropolitan Cities. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34 (11), 1402-1426.

Dmitrieva, J., Gibson, L., Steinberg, L., Piquero, A. & Fagan, J. (2014). Predictors and Consequences of Gang Membership: Comparing Gang Members, Gang Leaders, and Non-Gang-Affiliated Adjudicated Youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24(2), 220-234.

Dmitrieva, J., Monahan, K., Cauffman, E., & Steinberg L (2012). Arrested Development: The Effects of Incarceration on the Development of Psychosocial Maturity. Development and Psychopathology, 24(3), 1073-1090.

Fagan, J. & Piquero, A. (December 2007). Rational Choice & Developmental Influences on Recidivism Among Adolescent Felony Offenders. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 4 (4), 715-748.

Goldweber, A., Dmitrieva, J., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A, & Steinberg, L. (2011). The Development of Criminal Style in Adolescences and Young Adulthood: Separating the Lemmings from the Loners. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 40(3), 332-346.

Hampton, A.S., Drabick,D.A.G., & Steinberg, L. (2014). Does IQ Moderate the Relation Between Psychopathy & Juvenile Offending? Law and Human Behavior, 38(1), 23-33. DOI:10.1037/lhb0000036.

Hawes, S.W., Mulvey, E.P., Schubert, C.A., & Pardini, D.A. (2014). Structural Coherence and Temporal Stability of Psychopathic Personality Features During Emerging Adulthood. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123(3), 623-633.

Iselin, AM., Mulvey, E.P., Loughran, T.A., Chung, H. L., & Schubert, C. A. (2012.) A Longitudinal Examination of Serious Adolescent Offenders' Perceptions of Chances for Success and Engagement in Behaviors Accomplishing Goals. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40(2), 237-249.

Jones, S., Cauffman, E., & Miller, J. D. (2006). Investigating Different Factor Structures of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version: Confirmatory Factor Analytic Findings. Psychological Assessment, 18 (1), 33-48.

Knight, G. P., Little, M., Losoya, S., & Mulvey, E. P. (2004). The Self-Report of Offending Among Serious Juvenile Offenders. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2 (3), 273-295.

Knight, G., Losoya, S., Cho, Y., Chassin, L., Williams, J., & Cota-Robles, S. (2012). Ethnic Identity & Criminal Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 22(4), 782-796.

Knight, G.P., Vargas-Chanes, D., Losoya, S., Cota-Robles, S., Chassin, L., & Lee, J.M. (2009) Acculturation and Enculturation Trajectories among Mexican American Adolescent Offenders, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19 (4) 625-653.

Lee, J. M., Steinberg, L., & Piquero, A. R. (2010). Ethnic Identity and Attitudes Toward the Police Among African American Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38 (4) 781-789.

Lee, J.M., Steinberg, L., Piquero, A.R., & Knight, G.P. (2011). Identity-linked Perceptions of the Police Among African American Juvenile Offenders: A Developmental Perspective. Journal of Youth Adolescence, 40: 23-37.

Little, M., & Steinberg, L. (2006). Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Drug Dealing in the Inner City: Potential Roles of Opportunity, Conventional Commitments, and Maturity. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, 43 (4), 357-386.

Losoya, S. H., Knight, G. P. Chassin, L., Little, M., Vargas-Chanes, D., Mauricio, A., Piquero, A. (2008). Trajectories of Acculturation and Enculturation in Relation to Heavy Episodic Drinking and Marijuana Use in a Sample of Mexican American Serious Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Drug Issues, 38 (1), 171-198.

Loughran, T., & Mulvey, E. (2010). Estimating Treatment Effects: Matching Quantification to the Question. In D. Weisburd, A. Piquero (Eds.) Handbook of Quantitative Criminology, (pp163-181). New York: Springer.

Loughran, T. A., Mulvey, E. P., Schubert, C. A., Chassin, L., Piquero, A. R., Cota-Robles, S., Fagan, J., Cauffman, E. & Losoya, S. H. (2010). Differential Effects of Adult Court Transfer on Juvenile Offender Recidivism. Law & Human Behavior, 34 (6), 476-488.

Loughran, T., Mulvey, E. P., Schubert, C. A., Fagan, J., Losoya, S. H., & Piquero, A. R. (2009). Estimating a Dose-Response Relationship between Length of Stay and Future Recidivism in Serious Juvenile Offenders. Criminology, 47(3) 699-740.

Loughran, T.A., Nguyen, H., Piquero, A.R., & Fagan, J. (2013). The Returns to Criminal Capital. American Sociological Review, 78(6), 925-948.

Loughran , T.A. , Paternoster, R., Piquero, A., & Fagan, J. (2013). A Good Man Always Knows His Limitations: Overconfidence in Criminal Offending. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 50 (3) 327 – 358.

Loughran, T. A., Paternoster, N., Piquero, A. R., & Pogarsky, G. (2011). On Ambiguity in Perceptions of Risk: Implications for Criminal Decision Making and Deterrence. Criminology, 49(4), 1029-1061.

Loughran, T. A., Piquero, A., Fagan, J., & Mulvey, E. (2011). Deterring Serious and Chronic Offenders: Research Findings and Policy Thoughts from the Pathways to Desistance Study, In N. Dowd (Ed.), Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids out of the Juvenile Justice System, New York, NYU Press.

Loughran, T. , Piquero, A.R., Fagan, J., & Mulvey, E.P. (2012). Differential Deterrence: Studying Heterogeneity and Changes In Perceptual Deterrence among Serious Adolescent Offenders. Crime and Delinquency. Crime and Delinquency. DOI: 10.1177/0011128709345971

Loughran, T.A., Pogarsky, G., Piquero, A.R. & Paternoster, R. (2012). Re-examining the Functional Form of the Certainty Effect in Deterrence Theory. Justice Quarterly, 29(5), 712-741.

Mauricio, A.M., Little, M., Chassin, L., Knight, G. P., Piquero, A. R., Losoya, S. H., & Vargas-Chanes, D. (2009). Juvenile Offenders' Alcohol and Marijuana Trajectories: Risk and Protective Factor Effects in the Context of Time in a Supervised Facility. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 38 (3), 440-435.

Monahan, K.C., Dmitrieva, J., & Cauffman, E. (2014). Bad Romance: Gender Differences in the Longitudinal Association Between Romantic Relationships and Deviant Behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24(1), 12-26.

Monahan, K. C. & Piquero, A. R. (2009). Investigating the Longitudinal Relation Between Offending Frequency and Offending Variety. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36, 653-673.

Monahan, K. C., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & Mulvey, E. P. (2009). Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior and Psychosocial Maturity from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 45(6), 1654-1668

Monahan, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., & Mulvey, E. (2014). Psychosocial (Im)maturity from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Distinguishing Between Adolescence-limited and Persisting Antisocial Behavior. Development and Psychopathology, 24(4), 1093-1105.

Monahan, K. C., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2009)Affiliation with Antisocial Peers, Susceptibility to Peer Influence, and Desistance from Antisocial Behavior during the Transition to Adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 45(6), 1520-1530.

Monahan, K., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2013). Age Differences in the Impact of Employment on Antisocial Behavior. Child Development, 84, 791-801. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12031

Mulvey, E. P. (2005). Risk Assessment in Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice. In K. Heilbrun, N. E. S. Goldstein & R. E. Redding (Eds.), Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, assessment, and intervention (pp. 209-231). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mulvey, E. P., & Schubert, C. A. (2011). Youth in Prison and Beyond. In B. Feld, D. Bishop (Eds.), Oxford handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice. New York: Oxford.

Mulvey, E.P. & Schubert, C. A. (2012). Some Initial Policy Implications from the Pathways to Desistance study. Victims and Offenders, 7(4), 407-427.

Mulvey, E.P. & Schubert, C.A. (December, 2012). Transfer of Juveniles to Adult Court: Effects of a Broad Policy in One Court. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Mulvey, E.P., & Schubert, C.A. (2014). Smarter Use of Placement Can Improve Outcomes for Youth and Communities. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.

Mulvey, E.P., & Schubert, C.A. (2014). To Monitor Changing Risks and Needs, Repeat Assessments of Young Offenders Over Time. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.

Mulvey, E.P., Schubert, C. A., & Chassin, L. (December, 2010). Substance Use and Offending in Serious Adolescent Offenders. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Mulvey, E. P., Schubert, C. A., & Chung, H. L. (2007). Service Use After Court Involvement in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 518-544.

Mulvey, E. P., Schubert, C. A., & Odgers, C. A. (2010). A Method of Measuring Organizational Functioning in Juvenile Justice Facilities Using Resident Ratings. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(11), 1255-1277.

Mulvey, E. P., Steinberg, L., Fagan, J., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A. R., Chassin, L., et al. (2004). Theory and Research on Desistance from Antisocial Activity among Serious Adolescent Offenders. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2 (3), 213-236.

Mulvey, E. P., Steinberg, L., Piquero, A. R., Besana, M., Fagan, J., Schubert, C., & Cauffman, E. (2010). Trajectories of Desistance and Continuity in Antisocial Behavior Following Court Adjudication Among Serious Adolescent Offenders. Development and Psychopathology, 22, 453-475.

Nichtor, B; Chassin, L. (2015). Separate Dimensions of Anxiety Differentially Predict Alcohol Use Among Male Juvenile Offenders. Addictive Behaviors, 50, 144-148.

Piquero, A. R., & Brame, R. W. (July 2008). Assessing the Race-Crime and Ethnicity Crime Relationship in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Delinquents. Crime & Delinquency, 54 (3), 390-422

Piquero, A. R., Fagan, J., Mulvey, E. P., Steinberg, L., & Odgers, C. (2005). Developmental Trajectories of Legal Socialization among Serious Adolescent Offenders. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 96 (1), 267-298.

Piquero, A.R., Jennings, W.G., Piquero, N.L., & Schubert, C.A. (2014). Does Capital Differentiate Between Offending Trajectories in a Sample of Serious Hispanic Adolescent Offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice, 42, 366-373.

Piquero, A.R., Monahan, K., Glasheen, C., Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2013). Does Time Matter? Comparing Trajectory Concordance and Covariate Association Using Time-Based and Age-Based Assessments. Crime & Delinquency, 59(5), 738-763.

Piquero, A.R., Schubert, C.A., & Brame, R. (2014). Comparing Official Record and Self Report Records of Arrest Across Gender and Race/Ethnicity in a Longitudinal Study of Serious Youthful Offenders. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, 51, 526-55.

Pyrooz, D.C., Sweeten, G., & Piquero, A. R. (2013). Continuity and Change in Gang Membership and Gang Embeddedness. Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency, 50(2), 239- 271. DOI: 10.1177/0022427811434830.

Reid, J.A., & Piquero, A.R. (2014). On the Relationships between Commercial Sexual Exploitation/Prostitution, Substance Dependency, and Delinquency in Youthful Offenders. Child Maltreatment, 19(3/4), 247-260.

Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2014). Programs that Promote Positive Development Can Help Young Offenders Grow Up and Out of Crime. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.

Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2014). Helping Adolescents Succeed in the Community After Institutional Placement. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.

Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2014). Perceptions and Outcomes in Adolescent Confinement. Chicago, IL: MacArthur Foundation.

Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2014). Behavioral Health Problems, Treatment, and Outcomes in Serious Youthful Offenders. Washington, DC: United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.

Schubert, C. A., Mulvey, E. P., & Glasheen, C. (2011). The Influence of Mental Health and Substance Use Problems and Criminogenic Risk on Outcomes in Serious Juvenile Offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 50(9), 925-937.

Schubert, C. A., Mulvey, E. P., Loughran, T., Fagan, J., Chassin, L., Piquero, A., Losoya, S., Steinberg, L. & Cauffman, E. (2010). Predicting Outcomes for Youth Transferred to Adult Court. Law & Human Behavior, 34 (6) 460-475.

Schubert, C. A., Mulvey, E.P., Loughran, T.A., & Losoya, S. (2012). Perceptions of Institutional Experiences and Community Outcomes for Serious Adolescent Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 39(1), 71-93.

Schubert, C. A., Mulvey, E.P., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., Losoya, S., Hecker, T., Chassin, L., et al. (2004). Operational Lessons from the Pathways to Desistance Project. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2 (3), 237-255.

Shulman, E., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., & Fagan, J. (2011). Moral Disengagement Among Serious Juvenile Offenders: A Longitudinal Study of the Relations between Morally Disengaged Attitudes and Offending. Developmental Psychology, 47(6), 1619-1632.

Steinberg, L., Blatt-Eisengart, I., & Cauffman, E. (2006). Patterns of Competence and Adjustment among Adolescents from Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, and Neglectful Homes: A Replication in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16 (1), 47-58.

Steinberg, L., Chung, H. L., & Little, M. (2004). Re-entry of Young Offenders From the Justice System: A Developmental Perspective. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 1 (1), 21-38.

Steinberg, L. & Monahan, K.C. (2007). Age Differences in Resistance to Peer Influence, Developmental Psychology, 43 (6), 1531-1543.

Sweeten, G., Piquero, A.R., & Steinberg, L. (2013). Age & The Explanation of Crime, Revisited. Journal of Youth and Adolescents, 42(6), 921-938.

Sweeten, G., Pyrooz, D.C. & Piquero, A.R. ( 2013). Disengaging from Gangs and Desistance from Crime. Justice Quarterly, 30, 469-500.

Thomas, K.J., Loughran, T.A., & Piquero, A.R. (2013). Do Individual Characteristics Explain Variation in Sanction Risk Updating Among Serious Juvenile Offenders? Advancing the Logic of Differential Deterrence. Law & Human Behavior, 37(1), 10-21. DOI: 10.1037/h0093990

Tsang, S., Piquero, A.R., & Cauffman, E., (2014). An Examination of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version among Male Adolescent Offenders: An Item Response Theory Analysis. Psychological Assessment. 26(4), 1333-1346.

Wagoner, R., Schubert, C.A., & Mulvey, E.P. (2015). Probation Intensity, Self-Reported Offending, and Psychopathy in Serious Juvenile Offenders on Probation. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 43(2), 191-200.

Williams, L. R., & Steinberg, L.( 2011). Reciprocal Relations Between Parenting and Adjustment in a Sample of Juvenile Offenders. Child Development 82(2), 633-645.

Wright, K., Kim, B., Chassin, L., LoSoya, S. & Piquero A. (2014) Ecological Context, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Youth Reoffending: Identifying the Social Mechanisms in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders.Journal of Youth and Adolescence,43, 1781-1799.


In Press:

Cardwell, S., Piquero, A., Jennings, W.G., Copes, H., Schubert, C.A. & Mulvey, E.P. (in press). Variability in Moral Disengagement and its Relation to Offending in a Sample of Serious Youthful Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

DeLisi, M., Piquero, A., & Cardwell, S. (in press). Unpredictability of Murder: Juvenile Homicide in the Pathways to Desistance Sample. Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice.

El Sayed, S., Piquero, A.R., Schubert, C.A., Mulvey, E.P., Piquero, N. (in press). Assessing the Mental Health/Offending Relationship Across Race/Ethnicity in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders. Criminal Justice Policy Review. DOI: 10.1177/0887403415575145.

Feldstein Ewing, SW., Filbey, FM, Loughran, T.A., Chassin, L, Piquero, A.R. (in press). Which Matters Most? Demographic, Neuropsychological, Personality, and Situational Factors in Long-Term Marijuana and Alcohol Trajectories for Justice-Involved Male Youth. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. (available via Epub ahead of print).

Larson, M. Sweeten, G., Piquero, A. (in press). With or Without You? Specifying the Implications of Romantic Relationship Breakup for Crimes Among Seriously At-Risk Youth. Journal of Youth & Adolescents. DOI 10.1007/s10964-015-0318-9.

Loughran, T.A., Reid, J.A., Collins, M.E., Mulvey, E.P. (in press). Feeling Bulletproof: Does Gun-Carrying Make Crime Seem Less Risky to Adolescent Offenders. American Journal of Public Health.

Monahan, K., King, K., Shulman, E., Chassin, L., & Cauffman, E. (in press). The Effects of Violence Exposure on the Development of Impulse Control and Future Orientation Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Time Specific and Generalized Effects in a Sample of Juvenile Offenders. Development & Psychopathology.

Nguyen, H. Loughran, T., Paternoster, R., Fagan, J., Piquero, A. (in press). Institutional Placement and Illegal Earnings: Examining the Crime School Hypothesis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Piquero, A.R. (in press). Take My License n’ All That Jive, I Can’t See….35: Little Hope For The Future Encourages Offending Over Time. Justice Quarterly.

Piquero, A.R., Bersani, B.E., Loughran, T.A., Fagan, J. (in press) Longitudinal Patterns of Legal Socialization in First Generation Immigrants, Second Generation Immigrants, and Native Born Serious Youthful Offenders. Crime and Delinquency. DOI: 10.1177/0011128714545830

Reid, J.A. & Piquero, A.R. (in press). Applying General Strain Theory to Youth Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Crime & Delinquency. DOI: 10.1177/0011128713498213.

Reid, J. A. & Piquero, A.R. (in press). Age-Graded Risks for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Male and Female Youth. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI:10.1177/0886260513511535

Schubert, C.A., Mulvey, E.P., & Pitzer, L. (in press). Differentiating Serious Adolescent Offenders Who Exit the Justice System From Those Who Do Not. Criminology.